cheer
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a cry or shout of approval
Types & categories
- commendation hypernym
- banzai hyponym
- bravo hyponym
- hurrah hyponym
- salvo hyponym
Related & opposite
- cheer derivation
Sense 2 verb
give encouragement to
Types & categories
- encourage hypernym
- take heart hyponym
Related & opposite
- dishearten antonym
- shouting derivation
Sense 3 noun
the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room
Types & categories
- attribute hypernym
- good-temperedness hyponym
Parts & wholes
- disposition part holonym
Related & opposite
- uncheerfulness antonym
- cheerful attribute
- depressing attribute
- chirk up derivation
- cheer up derivation
- cheerful derivation
- gay derivation
Sense 4 verb
show approval or good wishes by shouting
everybody cheered the birthday boy
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 5 verb
cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful
She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee
Types & categories
- amuse hyponym
Related & opposite
- chirk up causes
- cheerfulness derivation
Sense 6 verb
become cheerful
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- plain antonym
- cheerfulness derivation
Sense 7 verb
spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- urging derivation
- exhortation derivation
- exhortation derivation
- shouting derivation
- cheerer derivation
- pressing derivation
- exhortative derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cheer |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | commendation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | banzai |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bravo |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hurrah |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | salvo |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | dishearten |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | shouting |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | encourage |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | take heart |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | uncheerfulness |
| 3 | attribute | Related & opposite | cheerful |
| 3 | attribute | Related & opposite | depressing |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | chirk up |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | cheer up |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | cheerful |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | gay |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | disposition |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | attribute |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | good-temperedness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | cheer |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | shouting |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | cheerer |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | applaud |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | lighten |
| 5 | causes | Related & opposite | chirk up |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | cheerfulness |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | amuse |
| 6 | antonym | Related & opposite | plain |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | cheerfulness |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | joy |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | exuberate |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | buoy up |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | urging |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortation |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortation |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | shouting |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | cheerer |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | pressing |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortative |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | encourage |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | cheerlead |